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By Tami Luhby Jeanne Patterson really needs to see a doctor but had to cancel her appointment last week. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – January 12, 2014 – Why? Because her new Obamacare benefits were not in order, forcing her to spend hours and hours on hold with her […]

Working With Employer Plans. By Michael Tetreault, Editor JUNE 3, 2015 – According to Concierge Medicine Today, 85% of Concierge Medicine clinics still accept or participate in insurance (i.e. HMO, PPO, Medicare, Etc.) on behalf of their quarterly and annual subscribing patients. And according to a DPC Journal […]

Merrill Matthews, Contributor, Forbes.com 3/27/2013 — It appears that Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) will slip under the Affordable Care Act’s threshold for qualified coverage—although just barely. And given the fact that HSAs, and similar high deductible health insurance options, are about the only type of health coverage bending […]

DEC 14, 2013 — Another unintended consequence of ObamaCare is making itself known as more doctors are bailing out of traditional medical practices and moving to concierge medicine. (This isn’t unexpected to me as I’ve been hearing about physicians making the decision to refuse all medical insurance and […]

By John C. Goodman DECEMBER 15, 2013 – At this point we have no idea how many people will become newly insured under ObamaCare. For the first year out, the number of people with insurance may actually go down! But the administration’s goal is to insure an additional […]

Published on Friday, 13 December 2013 05:40 Written by John Goodman “No, there won’t be a doctor shortage,” wrote Zeke Emanuel and Scott Gottlieb in The New York Times the other day. ObamaCare will weather that challenge just fine. How? Nurses and other paramedic personnel can substitute for […]

By Bruce Japsen, Contributor, Forbes 12/08/2013 – Doctor and nurse vacancies are approaching nearly 20 percent at hospitals as these facilities prepare to be inundated by millions of patients who have the ability to pay for medical care thanks to the Affordable Care Act. A survey by health […]

December 09, 2013 – About 70 percent of California’s 104,000 doctors are reportedly planning to stay out of the state’s health insurance exchange, a move that could have significant impact on implementation of the Affordable Care Act. As states across the country work to enroll Americans in the […]

WSJ Reports … In Search of More Primary-Care Doctors By Barbara Sadick, Nov. 17, 2013 4:07 p.m. ET Janine Knudsen, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care, is passionate about becoming a primary-care physician. She is convinced that the U.S. is moving toward a […]

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